LOW VOLTAGE APPARATUS ›› 2021, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (10): 7-12.doi: 10.16628/j.cnki.2095-8188.2021.10.002

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Research on Prestrike Characteristics of Double-Break VCB Under Direct Current Voltages

PENG Jing1,2, DENG Yunkun1, WANG Ke1, CHEN Xinggui2, GENG Yun2, GENG Yingsan2   

  1. 1. Electric Power Research Institute,Yunnan Power Grid Co.,Ltd.,Kunming 650217,China
    2. State Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Power Equipment,Xi’an Jiaotong University,Xi’an 710049,China
  • Received:2021-05-21 Online:2021-10-30 Published:2022-01-25

Abstract:

The purpose of this paper is to study the prestrike characteristics of a double-break vacuum circuit breaker under direct current voltages.In this experiment,we measured the prestrike gap of the single-break and the double-break vacuum circuit breaker in closing operations under different voltage levels,and calculated their Weibull probability distribution.The results show that,compared with the 50% prestrike gap of the single-break vacuum circuit breaker,the d50 of each vacuum interrupter in the double-break vacuum circuit breaker is reduced by 25.0%~72.7%.Due to the voltage sharing effect of double-break vacuum breaker,the dispersion of the prestrike gaps of the vacuum interrupters in the high voltage side and low voltage-side of double-break vacuum breaker is significantly lower than that of the single-break vacuum circuit breaker.

Key words: vacuum circuit breaker(VCB), double-break, prestrike characteristics, vacuum interrupter, prestrike gap

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